Cosmopolitanism and Conflict

October 11, 2013 - October 13, 2013
John Cabot University

Guarini campus, in Via della Lungara 233
Rome
Italy

Sponsor(s):

  • Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
  • John Cabot University

Organisers:

Tom Bailey
John Cabot University
Martine Prange
Leiden University

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Contemporary global politics is increasingly marked by conflicts. One thinks of conflicts over institutions and authorities, resources and citizenship, military force and climate change, religion and ideology. Yet prevailing cosmopolitan theories of global politics tend to abstract from conflict, through idealizing presuppositions about rights and authority, rationality and society. This conference will therefore consider the constructive roles that concepts of conflict might play in theorizing global politics. It will focus particularly on how cosmopolitan theories might be enriched and reformulated by such concepts, and thus better respond to the challenges of contemporary global conflicts.

Speakers include:

Daniele Archibugi (Birkbeck and CNR, Rome), ‘Crime and Punishment in a Cosmopolitan Society: The Effectiveness of Emergent International Criminal Justice’

Robert Bernasconi (Penn State), ‘Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, Racism’

James Bohman (St. Louis), ‘Cosmopolitan Republicanism: Non-domination without States?’

Garrett Brown (Sheffield), ‘A Responsibility for the Symptom or the Cause? Jus ante Bellum and Reevaluating the Cosmopolitan Approach to Humanitarian Intervention’

Hauke Brunkhorst (Flensburg), ‘Law and Revolution in the Cosmopolitan Age: The Kantian Mindset as Normative Constraint on Evolutionary Adaption’

Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck), ‘The End of Cosmopolitanism: Metaphysics, History, Politics’

Robert Fine (Warwick), ‘Blasting Open the Continuum of History: Arendt’s Troubled Cosmopolitanism’

Antonio Franceschet (Calgary), ‘Kantian Theory and Nuclear Proliferation’

Patrick Hayden (St. Andrews), ‘Camus’s Rebellious Cosmopolitanism: Contradictions, Conflicts and Limits of the Cosmopolitan Disposition’

Pauline Kleingeld (Groningen), ‘Kant, Conflict and Colonialism’

Sebastiano Maffettone (LUISS, Rome), ‘Justice in War and Military Intervention’

Darrel Moellendorf (San Diego), ‘Why Global Justice: The Case of Crisis Transfer Mechanisms’

Sankar Muthu (Chicago), ‘Countervailing Powers, Unsocially Sociable Connections and Productive Resistance: Enlightenment Conceptions of Globalization and Cosmopolitan Society’

Lars Rensmann (John Cabot), ‘Cosmopolitan Norms and Local Conflict: A Theoretical Framework’

John Rundell (Melbourne), ‘Contesting Sovereignty and Citizenship: The Cosmopolitan Imaginary’

Ronald Tinnevelt (Radboud), ‘The Institutional Implications of Moral Cosmopolitanism’

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September 17, 2013, 11:00am CET

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